Matvei Muranov

Matvei Konstantinovich Muranov (29 November 1873-9 December 1959) was a Soviet politician and one of the few "old Bolsheviks" to survive the Great Purge.

Biography
Matvei Konstantinovich Muranov was born on 29 November 1873 in Rybtsy, Poltava, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). He worked as a railroad worker in Kharkov before joining the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, and he was exiled to Siberia in 1914 for calling on Imperial Russian Army troops to turn their guns against the imperialist government. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he became a member of the editorial board of Pravda, and he became a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. During the 1920s, he supported Joseph Stalin during the intra-CPSU debates, and he survived the "Great Purge", albeit being sent into retirement in 1936. He died in 1959.